Single Crochet Stitch
The smallest crochet stitch.
Learn the basic crochet stitch, from whence all other crochet stitches spring.
In UK terms, this is the double crochet stitch.
Video Tutorial
How to Do It
Basic Principle:
You’ll be using a crochet hook to create a simple combination of loops to form a square-ish stitch.
Steps
- Insert your hook through the top two loops (the top chain) of the row below.
- Catch the yarn and pull it through the loops. You should have two loops on the hook—the one you just made and the one from the previous stitch.
- Catch the yarn again and pull it through both loops.
- Congratulations! You’ve completed a single crochet stitch!
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I started My Secret Wish Knitting in 2010 to empower and delight knitting heroes like you who want to elevate your knitting and make magic with yarn. When I’m not concocting new yarn potion recipes, I’m creating story magic as a fantasy and romance author and fiction editor (at talenawinters.com). I live with my family and pets in the Peace Country of northern Alberta, Canada, where sweater weather lasts at least nine months a year and my closest neighbours are bears and wood nymphs.
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